Biography of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
It is difficult to imagine that slavery would have ceased to exist in the United States as quickly as…
Johnny Reb—in popular culture, as well as the serious study of the Civil War—is the symbolic representation…
Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807-1891) was the highest ranking United States officer…
The Joint Committee was created in December 1861 following the Federal disaster at Ball's Bluff and during…
In April 1863 Confederate forces launched a raid into the new state of West Virginia designed to wreak…
The press of the Union and Confederacy published millions of words on every aspect of the Civil War.
The Jim Crow system of segregation adopted by the states of the U.S. Southeast was devised in an attempt…